MOBILE, Alabama -- Remember that controversial candidate for the Mobile County schools superintendency who was working in Indianapolis, but said he'd rather go to Greenville, S.C., where he was also a finalist, than come here.

In Mobile, White was one of three finalists that the school board brought in to interview to replace Roy Nichols last March. The board had two unsuccessful searches, with three finalists apiece, before promoting then-Interim Superintendent Martha Peek to the superintendency full-time.